After visiting our daughter, I headed up the Pacific Coast Highway to Monterey. From here, I headed back to Lone Pine for the return trip home. Soon after sunrise, I arrived at the Alabama Hills, where I made this image of the granite boulders with Mount Whitney and the Sierra Nevada as the backdrop. The morning sunset lit up the Sierra with a pink light. I was too late to capture this.
A short stretch of the road to Death Valley has Joshua trees growing at the roadside. Stopping for a break from driving, I made some images at this location.
A detailed shot of one of the trees, has the remains of a flower
The next stop on the return trip was at Zion National Park. The canyon adjacent to the tunnels have these magnificent sandstone cliff walls that are a few hundred feet in height.
Later that day, I stopped at Devil’s Garden where there are some rock arches in the sandstone.
Also at this location are some hoodoos, that I captured in this image.
Those are the final images from my road trip before returning home for Christmas.